How to Use boot camp in a Sentence
boot camp
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Xavier went from teaching children, adults, striking classes, boot camp classes and fight camps.
— Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Aug. 2019 -
That's because unlike others, this isn't a strict military-style boot camp.
— Leena Kim, Town & Country, 13 Sep. 2019 -
Students developed and pitched venture ideas in a four-day entrepreneurship boot camp.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2019 -
Weddings four through seven were packed into three months, in what ultimately became a sober-wedding boot camp.
— Sarah Levy, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2019 -
Dozens of coding boot camps have adopted this approach to offer two- to nine-month programs in technical specialties.
— Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 22 Aug. 2019 -
Tony and Jenny Keen are so proud of grandson Chris Schuler who just graduated from boot camp.
— Beverly Southall, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2019 -
Options include cooking basics, intensive culinary boot camps (for adults or kids), date nights, healthy eating and kids/teens classes.
— Samantha Nelson, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2019 -
Smith has become one of several poster children for the work the Terps put in this summer at Kyle Tarp’s basketball boot camp.
— Don Markus, baltimoresun.com, 19 Sep. 2019 -
The 10 or 12 who make that cut will go to the boot camp and be judged on business feasibility and contributions to their community.
— Anchorage Daily News, 20 Aug. 2019 -
Vocational schools and boot camps operate entirely on the ISA model.
— Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 22 Aug. 2019 -
This minimum-security prison houses up to 90 adult male offenders for a boot camp program where nonviolent inmates can earn an early release.
— Ryan Faircloth, Twin Cities, 10 Aug. 2019 -
The behind-the-scenes of these shows are kind of like a boot camp.
— Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 16 Sep. 2022 -
In 1923, the Navy opened its own boot camp next door to the depot.
— Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2021 -
The boot camp helped more than 100 writers learn the ins and outs of running a project.
— Amber Dowling, Variety, 19 Apr. 2023 -
Some of the crew are as young as 18 and began this cruise fresh out of boot camp.
— Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Oct. 2021 -
The number of recruits dwindled from 28 to just 10 by the end of boot camp.
— Sam Russek, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023 -
Forced to get the shot to see my son graduate boot camp.
— cleveland, 30 Mar. 2022 -
Evans was the first of two recruits to die during boot camp this year.
— John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 5 Nov. 2019 -
Rest easy, zoomers — boot camp has been postponed for now.
— Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2024 -
Drafted, Andrews went to boot camp at the then-new Fort Dix.
— Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023 -
This caused a further blow to my self-esteem and the start of a sort of reform boot camp.
— Rommy Torrico, refinery29.com, 31 Mar. 2022 -
His father, Thomas, died just before the young man shipped off to boot camp in 2005.
— Ben Kesling, WSJ, 28 May 2021 -
The next morning, half the house lays out by the pool while the other half goes through Nelly T's boot camp.
— Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2021 -
One is off to compete around the globe, one is taking his trombone to boot camp and one is off to serve the poor.
— Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 3 June 2024 -
Or join a boot camp through the empty and still-closed theme park (think: jumping jacks in the Avengers Campus).
— Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 14 Feb. 2022 -
The last entrepreneurship boot camp was held in Dallas in 2019.
— Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2021 -
Working with Tom Cruise was its own kind of actor boot camp.
— Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 17 May 2022 -
The rare glimpse of this secretive boot camp came from Biles herself.
— Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2021 -
Opening up shorter avenues that are free or less expensive than for-profit boot camps can help.
— Olivia Sanchez, USA TODAY, 31 July 2024 -
Wellness-minded travelers will also love the hotel’s indoor-outdoor gym that offers top-of-the-line equipment, yoga classes, and fitness boot camps, as well as wet and dry saunas and a cold plunge.
— Outside Online, 29 July 2024
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